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    "id": 221268,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kituyi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 293,
        "legal_name": "Mukhisa Kituyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I intend to speak for only two minutes or so. I think the hon. Member who brought this matter before the House has some legitimate concern about some things being done the right way. But things being done the right way is not 1364 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 16, 2007 pretending that Parliament is the ratifying authority for any amendments to treaties that Kenya is party to. This House is seized of knowledge that in Kenya Parliament can be notified, but the ratifying authority of treaties is the Cabinet. Be that as it may, the operative law on the matter being discussed here is something different. In the Laws of Kenya, we enacted in the year 2000, an Act No. 2 of the year 2000, which is the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community Act, an Act of this Parliament for giving effect to certain provisions of the Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community and for connected purposes. In that Act, enacted by this Parliament, there is Article 9, which is the provision on how the Treaty for the East African Community can be amended. It is a very brief section, and I wish to read it before the House. It reads: \"Amendment of Treaty: If the Treaty is amended or modified, the Attorney-General shall cause a notice of the amendment or modification and of the date when the amendment or modification comes or is deemed to have come into operation, to be published in the Gazette, and a copy of the notice to be laid without delay before the National Assembly, and such amendment or modification shall, for the purposes of this Act, come or be deemed to have come into operation on such a date\". If there is an anomaly, it can only be that the Attorney-General has not, in a speedy way, tabled, or given notice to Parliament of, the gazettement of the amendment. But there is no provision that there should be ratification or that ratification should be done by this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rest my case."
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